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i The Batesburg Advocate. W VOL. III. BATESBUlUi, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, NO. 84. [A Jj'iliitY Sl'fehCIl On the Bace Issue by Senator Til man in Augusta. WAS APPLAUDED TO THE ECHC He Said PoHiical Kquallty for th ' | Means Social Kqu.t.y, and Social Kquallty Me .ua MoiiKrelizadoii. ? I "Political equality for the nejrr means social equality and social equal ity means mongrellzation," said Sena tor lienjainiu It. Tillman, of Sout I Carolina, in ail impassioned declara tion at the Miller Walker hall Wee nesday night, and the audience at plauded the utterance to the echo. A very large and enthusiastic au dience greeted the tirst lecture appear ance of the South Carolina senator ii Augusta. Senator Tillman also touched u the bartering of negro votes ii Augusta in the past, and said tha Augusta was a byword of scorn 01 this account in the North. Like the suigeon who would pu the knife to the sore, rather thanglos it over and let it continue to fester lie would talk to them plainly abou these things. ' "Augusta could not alford for he own self respect to coddle the negr in vote-buying. The Anglo-Saxon i an imperious race, and whenever thi vote-buying was engaged in, it alway tended to lower the standard of tli whites. Augusta was not the only city, h said, that was censurable in this re spect in the past, and the scenes ii former elections in Augusta were re ferred to as an illustration of the far that temporizing with the negro ii elections should be discountenanced and that the only remedy for the evil threatening in the race problem wa to repeal the fifteenth amendment. HOPE IN MIDDLE CLASS. In the discussion of this qucstioi with Senator burton of Kansas, in thi Northwest, he said these plain utter ancesof his received as much applausi as Senator burton's, when he tol< them these plain truths, and that h< could tell from the gleam of the ey( |^| and the nod of the head that his ap HB peal for the supremacy of the whit* . man in .the South met a responsiv< chord with people scattered al throughout the audience. He declared lie had found thre< classes of people in the North con cerning this race problem. Then . were the natural South haters, win never could believe that anything good could uime out of Dixie, buttha this was a very small class numerical ly. The second class constituted tin . politicians, who had seen the ltepubli can party nourish and fatten on tlu wave of the bloody shirt, and tin third class was the great body of tin people?the great middle class -whi would listen to reason and who wen not bigoted. It was to tlds class that the Soutt must make its appeal for the repealo the fifteenth amendment. TUKNING TAHI.KS ON AUGUSTA. Senator Tillman began his address which be said was not a lecture, hj telling of his early association witt Augusta. He was born only thirteei miles from the city, and lived there i plain farmer uutil fourteen years ago During all that time he was hen once a week, often two or three time.' a week, and therefore Augusta hat become a household world with him, in fact, more so, he said, than any city of his native state. He had of ten paid to hear others talk in Augusta and now he was glad to make Angus tans pay to hear him. After this prelude he branched oil in otf-hand style in his subject. He iirst began discussing the ract problem in the North tive years agt when the students of the Michigai university invited him to discuss the "ltace Problem in the South." He took delight in telling the peo pie at the North that this race prob lem seemed to be of their own making, rney poked their hands in this problem along in 13~>K and prior, and tlien poked their bayonetts in from '<>1 t< 'Oft, and later tlirust themselves in it again in the reconstruction period, and "we of tlie South never had a race problem until it was made by you long nosed Yankees." When they talked to him about educating the negro to uplift him, lit would tell thern "To hell with such rot." TAI.K ON LYNCHINO. Senator Tillman sp ike at some length upon the lynching phase ol the question, and said that he was not willing to stop lynchings on the idea that assaults would decrease, and wanted to know who did. lie had said when 'lie was governot that he would help lynch any man for that crime, if occasion required it, and lie had never taken it back. If an innocent, sweet girl of sixteen was going along a country road skirted on either side by a thick wood, and there should be lurking on the one side a wild tiger escaped from some menagerie. and on the other a brutal negro with fiendish intent, and it wa> her fate to be delivered up to the one or the other lie had rattier a thousand times that liis daughter should liecome food for the tiger. The negrc brute guilty of these crimes, lie said, manifested an unnatural desire unknown to any other brute creation. That the audience was enthused with tlie speaker there was no gainsayui; , as the enthusiastic applause, long cot tinued at times, fully attested. OKI ICS oo OK ON. When Senator Tillman neared the close, and suggested that the audience might be tired, there were cries of "Co on! (Jo on!" from all parta of the house. The senator closed in a live ' minutes' conversational talk, in whhh he spoke of thaolder men in Augusta lie knew in his younger days, who had e passen away. These men had laid a broad foundation for a thrifty cit?,; and he doubted not they had left s > s who woul I see that her reputation was kept clean and untarnished. They must repeal, as they had virtually annulled, the llfteenth amendment, and we of the South could not .afford ? to tamper witli the negro in polities, making him the balance of power and l- dividing the white race. When I] Augusta had her dose like South Carolina, then this negro bartering In elections would would become very nauseating i<? mis city. ?* Senator Tillman was Introduced by Mr. Bryson Crane, In a very happy speech. On the stage were SherllT Clark, Capt. Wm. Bryson, Mr. Bryson Crane, 11 and others. Senator Tillman's entrance into the hall was loudly cheerP ed. 11 Senator Tillman goes from here to Bainbridge, where he Is engaged to 11 lecture on this same topic. There were quite a number of ladies out to ' her the speaker.?Augusta Chronicle. k I DOWIE READY TO INVADE EAST. r . * 1Munh Complete lor Salvation ol* New 0 S York by Elijah II. s s Inalout a month John Alexander u Howie's "Restoration Host" will leave c Zion City to begin its campaign for the salvation of New York. The lull vaslon of the East by the followers of - "Elijah II" contemplates incursions ( into Philadelphia and Boston, hut at 1 present it. is against the ungodliness of New York that the main strength of s the host will he hurled. s Ten special trains have been chartered by the general overseer, and in these the invaders will embark leaving i Zion City October 14 and arriving in b New York two days later. Two of the - trains are routed to pass through b Philadelphia some time on October 1 ?. i They will go over the Baltimore and ; wiuu ivitiuoiiu uy way 01 Washington. ; The other eight trains are gcheuled to pass by Niagara Falls, where it is ?. purposed to hold a trerueudous meet? ing at the gate of the enemy's coun1 try, so to spcaak. I>owie himself, with his wife, son ? and body guard, will travel on the - train which leaves Zion City last. It 2 will be solidly composed of vest.ibuled > ears of the most luxurious type and ; will reach New York in advance of L -the whole procession. Meanwhile the man who says he has i ? inherited the mantel of Elijah is ex- < - tremely optimistic and very busy. 2 Through the coming month even his 2 tremendous energies will be taxed in 2 preparing for the movement of his ? host, and, aside from the practical de2 tails, he is laboring to get his followers into thorough accord with the work i ahead of them. This entails much f tutelage and the inculcation of many precepts, in his latest lesson, delivered last week, bowie warned his hear- i j ers that they would tin 1 the city on ' Manhattan Island far mole wicked 11 than Chicago. "Remember," he said, "that, al1 though New York lias a large average church attendance, it is not regular. \ for the average New Yorker is with- ; ' out religious concern and ungodliness j | is rife on every side. I | "Rut remember also that the peor ; pie of New York are iiiJelligen'. Re- i member that the average New v orker is a person of strong character, with sturdy instincts and strong retentive powers. New York is the imperial ; j. city of the i'nited Stiles. Approach j j it witii respect. t "bo not talk too much. t "bo not argue any questions. ' "bo not do as you please, hut obey j [ orders. " bo not talk aUiut things you do not understand." i Ten Thousand Victims. The Turks have destroyed the! town of Kastoria, Macedonia, and 1 have massacred the population. The ; ' reoort of a massacre at. Kastoria j comes from sources admitting of little ' doul)t though the details are lacking. J ' It was received with the gravest con1 cern by the officials hen;. The population of Kastoria nurahers about 10,000 1 ' | persons, and the massacre of such a ' number in one place, if the report is ^ I true, exceeds anything which has yet accurrtd in Macedonia. At the present ] I critical moment when popuiarfeel1 ing is intense, the effect of t he report 1 of such stupendous slaughter may be t most serious. The press is assuming . a bellicose tone. The Dnevnik to- ! I night eomplains that, the government's partial* mobilization of three;' division is utterly inadequate and! ' urges the immediate mobilization of the whole Bulgarian army. < 1 A Woman's Vengeance. 1 1 | I Governor Terrell of Georgia has inI creased the reward offered for George ' ; Hum!rick, ot Dooly county, from 5150 1' to $250. liundriek is wanted for tiie 1 murder of John Shrouder, last ' : September. lie and Andrew Hundrick 1 ! tired upon Shrouder and his wife as ? they were passing along the road in a 1 buggy. Shrouder was killed and bis 1 wife was seriously injured. Andrew ' It. Hundrick has been convicted. < George has not liecii arrested* Mrs. 1 Shrouder has sot out to avenge the 1 1 death of her husband. 11 AlftimaK&b A l XAULX. A Terrible Wreck at llranclivllltVery Narrow ly Averted. What might have been a serious wreck on the Southern railway at Hranchville Tuesday night of last week was averted by the coolness ol Engineer lingers of a work train. The regular train to Charleston, No. 14, was on the main t rack while the engineer and conductor were receiving instructions from the otllee, and the Augusta train was also at the station. The excursion from Asheville was running as the second section of No. 14, and was ten minutes behiud it. For some reason, the brakes of the special refused to work, and there was imminent danger of a dreadful collision, and actually a serh us bump. The Charleston l'ost says: When the excursion train, which bad been blowing the alarm signal, was within 100 yards or tlie regular train, Enmincer Homers realized the peril, and, leaping into the cab of No. 14's engine, lie pulled open the throttle. The train had just begun to move when the excursion crashed into ttie rear, throwing passengers sprawling on the door and seats. Fortunately, the excursion was going at a comparatively low rate of speed. Engineer lingers' action in moving the Charleston train prevented the force of impact being very much greater, llad the train remained stationary, the collision would nave been much worse. Engineer William P. Sullivan says he attempted to apply his brakes when he was three miles from ltranchvilie, and found that they would not work. Then he blew the alarm whistle to warn the otlicialsof danger, lie declares that lie did all in his power to bring the excursion to a stop, when he found the track was not clear, by throwing on the reverse, but his action was too late. It was stated Wednesday morning that the track was very slick from the rain and that there was not sutli- j cicnfc air to work the brakes. En ginner Sullivan discovered that liis ! brakes were not working when he was three miles from the depot and in i that distance could have slowed his train by throwing off power. Eleven were injured in the collision. I The only person who is seriously in-{ jured is Wells Pittman, colored, who is receiving treatment at the city., hospital. The others are: Dan Small. A. N. Hampton, S. W. Syn ier, 11. II. Wiggins, Spencer Hardy, .J. J. Coles, , A. M. Foster, W. Grimsbad, .1. C. Fordan and a child of a Mrs. Culling. The injured were immediately attended at Branch ville and Dr. J. S. Wimberley accompanied the train to i Charleston. The reason for the failure of the ex-; cursion engine's brakes to work has not yet been explained. The locomolive will l>e examined in the local shops. Just where the fault of the collision rests will be determined as i soon as possible. Passengers in the Charleston train were seized with panic when the col- ; lision occurred and several jumped l from the platforms, fearing a disas- j trous wreck. Conductor Myers calmed | the passengers who remained, and pre- ' vented them from acting rashly. He was cool and collected and told them there was no further danger. Had the excursion train been running fast, it would have proved a terrible disister, as persons in the Charleston train and the !T Ashe ville execursionists would have been in imminent peril of their iives. It is claimed, however, that Sullivan was not running faster than seven miles in hour. Kngineer lingers' etTorts to move the Charleston train is deserv- j ing of commendation, as his action! prevented a much worse impact, when the engine came together with the reaf car. A Shocking Tragedy. While tiring with a revolver at a bog, which was eating up a brood of young chickens at her home at Cull Point Pla., Wednesday afternoon, . Mrs. Louise Tidcman accidentally shot ind killed the little daughter ol William Douglass, a ncighltor, the bullet entering the back of the head ! if the little girl, passing through the brain. The two houses occupied by i the families are distant about tifty V!. rfttt I ti II." I I." I? 1...*.. I Ill I I IV> ltd I \'l LI1U I home the children had constructed! Lhetn a play house of hoards and canvass. and they were playing in there ; when the litte tfirl met death. The bullet passed through a hoard, enter- i inx the hack of the little girl's head. 1 Mrs. Tideman was not aware of the i Fact that the children were in the| play house. When the bullet struck the little tfirl she fell forward. Her playmates, although hearing the j shots, (iid not know what had occurred until the efforts to make her rise proved fruitless. Mciirtlhle Talk. The National Ne^ro baptist Convention met in I'hiladtflphia. I'a., last week. Ilev. K. C. Morris, of Helena, Ark., presided, and in It is annual ad Iress referred at considerable length Lo prevailing crime and lynching: In Hie course of his address lie said: "Let us consider that most of the Idood curdling outrages committed 1 gainst tiie pure womanhood of the | country are charged to members i f; iur race. There is room to consider whether or not we have made snilicient Ifort to restrain tliat element that is wringing such disgrace to tiie race and diame upon the country. 1 am sure dicrc is no sympaty in tiie lireast of my true man for the wretch who lias fallen so low as to commit an outrage tgainst any woman." l>r. Morris was re-elected president of the convention. HTOitM SWiiFl'. Great Havoc Played With Veesels About the Delaware Capes. DAMAGE TO ATLANTIC CITY. The Wfiul Koached it Velocity ol* Kittlily Miles an Hour and llain Fell in Torrents. A dispatch from Delaware Breakwater says the Southern storm, wliicli had l>een coming up the Atlantic coiist for several days, struck the Delaware capes early Wednesday raorninn with almost cyclonic force and as a result at least five lives were lost. The storwi lasted from :J a. m., to 7 a. m. The wind reached a maximum velocity of eighty miles an hour and the rain fell in torrents. The most serious accident reported was that which wrecked the schooner Hattic A. Marsh, whose captain, J. II. Mehafley, and four members of the crew were drowned. The Marsh hailed from New London, Conn, and was bound from Painters Point, Maine, for Philadelphia, with a cargo of paving stone. She was caught in the terrilic wind storm outside the new stone breakwater. The captain tried to reach the harbor of refuge, hut before he could do so the vessel had to anchor and try to ride the storm. Her anchors, however, did not hold, and the schooner, with her dead weight of stone, was dashed upon the rocks of the harbor refuge. The steam pilot boat Philadelphia went to the rescue, but only succeeded in saving Mate Norman Campbell and one seaman. In the old harbor, southwest of the maritime reporting station, three schooners dragged their anchors and collided. They were the Emily F. Northam, Adeline Townsend and Sea Bird. The Sea Bird, which was a two-masted vessel, sank, and her crew was rescued and landed on the point of Cape Hcnlopen. The men were cared for at the life saving station. The Northam had her jibboom carried away and her yawl stove. The Townsend lost her head gear and jibboom. The barges Elmwood, Gilbertoti and Kalmia, laden with coal from Philadelphia for Eastern points, were sunk in Delaware Bay, westward of the Brown Shoal. Their crews were rescued by the tug Tamaipia, which was towing the barges. The tug Spartan, which was towing the coal barges, is reported to have sunk. There are no tidings of t he Spartan's crew It is reported that three coal barges were sunk in the ocean oil" the capes and that their crews arc probably lost. An unknown hark is anchored otT Ocean City, Md., with distress signals in her rigging. The pilot boat Philadelphia lias gone to her assistance. Considerable money damage was done to the breakwater. The harbor of refuge, east end light and the day mark on the breakwater were carried away. The fury of the storm was also felt at Lewes, near here. Many trees wt re blown down and chimneys damaged. The smokestack of the city power oouse fell and considerably damaged the building. ATLANTIC CITY I1AKI) HIT. A dispatch from Atlantic City, N. J., says the storm which hit the coast early Thuasday morning was one of of the severest experienced for a long time. The wind blow with hurricane force, and while it lasted kept up a speed of seventy miles an hour. The storm was terrifying to a degree, but the damage was not as great as was at lirst believed. A conservative guess places the entire damage at $2n,ooo or $:t0,000. The telegraph and telephone lines leading out of the city are down, and the fact that the city was cut oif from connection with outside world started wild rumors that tno great resort bad been entirely swept away. The lirst train in from Philadelphia and other points hrougiit down excited relatives and friends, who were anxious about the welfare of their love ones who found them we'l and happy and telling amusing stories about tiie freaks of tlie storm. (treat damage was done along the hoard walk, where the one-story pavillions sufTered to a considerable extent. The storm's lirst attack was made on the McClay apartment building at Pacific and South Carolina avenues. The roof was more than hair torn olf, entailing a loss of >:!,200. The other largest damage was done at the Hotel Strand, situated on Pennsylvania avenue close to the tieaeh. This hotel's handsome brick and frame porch was completely ripped out and demolished by the wind. Outside of these places, the damage consisted of broken plate glass windows, tin roofs curled up, awnings blown down and trees uprooted, while in the inlet district, at the upper end of the city, a number of boats were torn from their moorings and several boat houses were blown over. When the roof of the McClay build-' ing was blown olT the fifty or more families in the house were thrown into a panic. They were quickly pacified however, and all left the building. One sick lad, John Flanagan, suffereing from fever, was hurried to a hospital. Young's pier was slightly damaged. The territory in the vicinity of the pier was made dangerous by dying glass. Ihg bulk windows gave way under pic.v-.uic ui itic storm, and pieces of the glass Hew in all direction. At this point, L>r. Kichard Fancoast, aged to years, of Philadelphia, ^ was blown down by the wind on the hoard walk and ids hip was fractured. He was hurried to the city hospital. Among the hotels whose roofs were damaged by the storm were the Marltioruugh, Metropolitan, Kuenhles, Kenllworth and Richmond. None j| were very seriously damaged. ltailroad trains left on schedule js time and a large number of timid j visitors hurriedly left town. The 2 jj|( o'clock express was the longest train lHJj out of the cit y this season. j KIKTKKN AAMKN LOST. A dispatch from Damarascatta, No., says fifteen men lost their lives in the violent uale which raged oil" the coast ,11 during the night. The Gloucester C(" mackerel seining schooner George K. (,,l! Edmunds, in command of Capt. VVm. w' P. Poole, tlie owner, struck on the [!!a eastern side of P? maquid Point and | j was smashed to pieces. Fourteeu of a , the crew of Hi men perished in the . breakers. The schooner Sadie and ,s! Liiinan, uapt. Ilardy, of Prospect, , , ImjuihI from Prospect bay to Hoston, struck on the western side of Petna- ^<l quid Point and liad her bottom knocked out on the rocks. Capt. Ilardy was drowned, but his crew of two men 111, were rescued. Tiic Gloucester schooner which had been fishing otT the . coast, missed her bearings and running too near the point oil Peru njuid ,lc. struck on the eastern side and was .. battered to pieces. Successive at- ! tempts were made to launch the small j,(j lioats. Several of the dories were smashed to pieces or washed away. Finally live men successfully got a ' boat launched and climbed into it. but 'f^ before they could reach land a treinen- ! 'l dous sea overturned the frail craft, yt Three men were drowned but a giant ^.j wave caught up the other two and ( swept them ashore. of the entire ^ crew of Hi men, these two were the . only survivors. tin KILLED HIMSELF. frc lnc wli Convicted ot'a Crime of Wtiicti He ji'i tin Was Innocent. Jai The Augusta Chronicle says Fred obi W. Moore, a prosperous merchant and planter living at Veazey, (la., shot l)f( himself Tuesday night with suicide ch; intent. He died Wednesday at noon, mj Moore was indicted by the last wi. grand jury for gross immorality. The pr? prosecutor in the case is Moore's half mi niece. Miss Annie Moore, lie was tried there Tuesday and found guilty. :i!T Sentence was suspended until Wednes- rm day. toi Moore went home Tuesday night in th? a very despondent mood and shot him- soi self as above stated. vei Moore Ixire an excellent reputation :m until this misfortune. He was 4"> an years of age and was widower, his wife da having died the early part of the ' year. He has a brother in Atlanta, no His attorney, Colonel .lames Davison, frc made the following statement Wed- is nesday morning: ge "I am shocked at tlie intelligence. Tl When Moure left me Tuesday night 1 assured him that on two distinct grounds of error in tlie trial he would be granted a new trial. The public should not take this rash act as con- \ elusive evidence of guilt. The facts at the trial showed that the prosecutor. who was Moore's half niece, had lirst had another man arrested for the crime; and latter dismissed that i ,, warrant and had Moure arrested." ! in> He wrote two letters, one to his' crt brother in Atlanta, which has not I e;i been opened the other one to his ne jphew, who clerked for him. The last letter read as follows: ' * "I, am innocent of the charge, j all Some of my people and some of my 1 ?-ai neighbors thought me guilty. My : 1st conscience is clear. 1 am innocent, thi This is my last goodby. dii W. Mookk." an tin Hvini; of Starvation. tei If the reports lie true there are .'in ^Iv ' prospectors dying of starvation at j ! Hast Cape, Itehring sea. < He John- j wr son, a Dane, member of the crew of j i the Danish ship Manacnz, just arrived nil j at Seattle from Alaska, has made y,, i formal charges against the captain of I(U the ship for having bandoned a man | u|a named iseison. Dane, and 2!' others j)U on the ley shore of E;ist Cape. lie has ^,U( also writen to the secretary of stale |?u giving full details of the captain's vel terrible deed and asking for a relief pj^ sliip to l>e sent at once to the rescue . of the suffering men. One of the oni men thus abandoned is L'hilip McLean, jn( of Chicago. The ship will Iks held w<l until the charge is investigated. sl1( Suddenly Disappeared. y1( A dispatch from Quitman. Ua., says shi quite a sensation has been created by 1 pu the disjippearanee of a young man j tin supposed to oe Luther V. Smith, lie dis disappeared two weeks ago but the tin facts have just been given out. When pa last seen he was in his room at his boarding house, lie had ordereij breakfast, but never came down to it. | ' lie left I)is valise open and a letter ad- |y, dressed to himself at Sycamore and an s(r untini ihed letter to a young lady at |,? that plaee. The letter lias been for- . ja^ warded to lier. era I oil A I'aiul Wreck. Freight train No. 'J<> with an engine pic and caboose was wrecked on the Sea- rer hoard Air Line live miles west of dui Madison, Fla., Tnursday night, kill- lia iug instantly D. W. Southwell of nit Jacksonville, and the tireman, whose esc name cannot yet be learned. The he< | wreck was caused by a washout. sh< A JsHlSKi* J?" IN TAUUiiHi. inr|(Ml With Murdnr hut ItefuMeN qj to lteliiu|iiiHh Hid Olltce. A peculiar state of atjairs exist in luda, according to abetter written Jacob Gibson, the coroner, to Gov. :yward Friday, Gibson's letter fK that the sherilT of Saluda county now under arrest charged witit the me or murder, yet lie refuses to requish bis olllce to tlie coroner, who lieves that he is empowered to act such cases. The question is one which has ver been raised before, and the govjor naturally is not familiar with j course to be pursued in such a to ltingeucy. He will submit the th est ion to the attorney geneial who da II advise him of his powers iu the "f itter of the removal from otllee of w< erilT Khoden who is now out under pu Kind for >1.000. W rhe coroner's letter to the governor l'? is follows: rei 'Last week I officially notified vou a.1 wire that the sherilT of this county mi s under arrest charged with the pe me of murder and that lie refused co turn over his oltice to me as com- m< ssioner and asked for directions. th i ruceivea your reply that you had | n< L lieen ollioially notiHed -and that te tiling was in your otliee for you to he i on. t< 'I now make otlicial notification of of j alTlirs: i w; 'On Saturday ni^ht, Sept. 5, 1003, I co bert Granch, a ne^ro was shot on te i public street in the town of | sa luda, and after inquisition by me j tli coroner, tl?e jury returned a ver- ' ca ;t that tlie lu'^rro came to his death te a nunshot wound in the hands of j eq L. lthoden and Mat Herry. hereupon 1 caused the said llhodcu pr d Gerry to t>e arrested and commit- wi 1 tliem to custody. in pursuance in the law 1 demanded that the otliee sheritr be turned over to me, but da b sheriff refused, and ordered me ti? tiif tlie jail, where he refused to tie , ba ked up. and discharged his jailer, | ti< io is my son, and appointed another or ler, from whom I took a receipt for ba b two prisoners. j te "The jailer lias moved out of the al: 1 and there is no one legally in \ te iit^e of tlie affairs of that otliee. | re le sheritr lias since been released j is >m custody under habeas corpus | be x'eedin^s, and still continues to dis- th artfe the duties of slieriIT. which in dc r opinion is contrary to the law. 1 Ji sii that you would advise me in the i co jmises as I have a prisoner that ! pr ist !ie delivered and put in custody." ' tli A thorough investigation of the tli air will of course be necessary lie- , ui e the governor can act. The at- i to nicy general said Friday afternoon it he would take the matter up as ! gi in as possible but that bis time was | p< ry much occupied liy other matters tli d that he may not be able to render a opinion on the matter before Mon- j nc y. ; t. l'lie prime question is whether or co t tlie sheritr should lie removed Gi ?m otliee and by what means and it se ulon^ this line that tlie attorney tli neral will advise Gov. llevward.? sa le State. at lie PIERCED BY A SWORDFISH. ol ot I c" ''isliiiiK Schooner Nearly Sunk !>y W I T (lie Leak il Made. Wi 111 riie fishing schooner Actor. Capt. P1 auk Nowell, came pretty near tnak- 11 C'C ( a large and roomy colli 11 for its 11 ;w of eight men as a result, of a re- j,, it encounter with a big swordtisli a jet v days ago oil the Georges Bank, j Cl happened that tlie Actor, howling J'j ng with full sail and a fair wind, *S(I ught the eye of a monster swordtisli. j |t, lowing that lie could never tou h ^ 6 vessel if it once got by, he immo- > ttl ately determined on a "mass play," | sj d putting spurs to his tins he met ;u b schooner head on. The feelings of the crew may bet- (',t r he imagined than described when ,| e vessel came to an abrupt stop and m ey fullnd themselves on the deck ^ eslling with tables, hatch covers. t|, laying pins and what not. Exami- (( Lion showed the swordtisli glued to 5 side of the vessel wliile at least a it of the sword had penetrated the j inks. This the captain cut oir and j)( t in his cabin, and, declaring it a r(j ik! joke, he returned to his wheel. 1 p( it he soon noticed that his tru-ty ,(] iscl, of which he was so proud, was j,. lulll.V fri..L-o Ullll. I.ir., ...i,.. """* ; in She seemed to settle and drag and yj ee in a while the l>ow would plunge j0 .0 a large wave and Capt. Nowcll W( uld make a bet with himself that |1? ?'d never rise again. She did, jugh, and soon the crew discovered j , 2 leakage through the rent in the p's side and got to work on the | \y mps. They pumped constantly all (1( 2 way to ltoston. where the vessel 1 charged its small cargo of tish arid en was headed for Gloucester for re- j irs. ltoston I>aily Advertiser. Oil tlio Main Strt;e(. ov William Williams, colored, was of iched at Centreville. Miss., on Main re, eet Tuesday by a mob of several m ndred p?*ople. Williams, who was ! ag ??r agent, has been h -re several days ro ploying negroes for contractors in Ti ler sections of the State and it is th L>ged that he enticed several em- re lyes to leave, .lames II. Germany po nonstrated with him atxiut his con- wi et. A quarrel followed and Wil- re ins drew a revolver and shot Ger- \ hi my dead. The negro attempted to ' er ape, hut <*t mob was quickly on his p<i sis and the negro- was captured and l>; it to death. j th HuVV is J Hlb? if lief Justice Pope Was Misinfoimed by Some One. * AS FALSELY LED TO BELIEVE iat the liar of WIhiihImh-o Held Oppoaif- I'iewM (? What the Cierit hoiien ConipoHlfijc it Now Kxpma. A special dispatch from WinnslKiro The State says: Tue members t?f e Wioosboro bar whom I saw Tuesy morning -and 1 saw a majority the active members of the bar? ;re all surprised at the statement blished from Spartanburg that the innsboro bar had petitioned Justice >pc for the postponement of the tfular term, and the appointment of ipecial term. They were all unanious in the statement that no sucii tition had been sent, and on the ntrary were emphatic in their state;nt that the majority, if not all of e members of the bar of vVinnsboro t only did not want the regular rrn postponed, but they wished it Id, and wished it held by Judge iwnsend and no one else. As one the older members expressed it there is more work on the docket than old be disposed of in the regular rm, and It would probably be jiecesry to have a special term to tlnish e Jury cases, much less the equity ses, and he was sure that a special rm would lie necessary to finish the ulty case.; at least. Senator Kagsdale practically ex- * esses the opinion of the entire bar, th possibly one or two exceptions, the following statement; "1 think the. statement in Tnesy's State is based on a misconcepni of the action of the Winnsb -ro r in so far as it has taken any ac?n at. all, I understand that the bar, a majority of the members of the .r, at least, desire that tlie regular rm of court lie had here. We may so find it necessary to have a special rin, hut we would like to have the gular terra also. If the regular term held. I do not think that It would : competent for any other judge an .1 udge Townseud to hold it. I i not think that the assignment of ldge Townsend to the Lexington urt makes such a 'disability' to e-ide here, as is contemplated by e statute, in other words 1 do not link that Judge Townsend is eligible ider tlie statute to the appoiutment hold the Lexington court." Tlie real status of tlie situation, ven as nearly as passible in thecomisite language of several memtiers of ie bar, is that tht bar was put into state of uncertainty by the auluncement last week that Judge iwnsend had been appointed to hold urt in Lexington instead of Judge ige. They knew that Judge Townnd was scheduled in accordance with ie provisions of the constitution and Luie Kiw ui uuid court in Wiunsboro, the same time that court was to be Id in Lexington. They were aware the constitutional objections to any her than the present judge of their rcuit holding court in Winnsboro, hen the judge of that circuit, Judge ownsend, was able to act. They ere aware that neither Justice l'ope r any other authority could p.?st>ne, or call oiT a regular term of court nit the court would have to he open1 each day hy ilte cK rs and adjourn* I from day today t ir two weeks even the absence of the judge of ttie cirlit. or that the Judge of the rcuit would have to open court mself and adjourn sine nie. Hence . a meeting of the bar held me days ago. with this knowdge and with the matter of Judge uwnsend's appointment to Lexingn not yet absolutely settled, the bar mply decided to await developments, id took no action. Hnt as stated M?ve by Senator IDgsdale, and l?y hers to me personally, there was ic evident desire on the part of the ajority ol' the iucml>ers of the bar mi tlie regular term lie held, and lat it he hold by no one else than nige Townsend to make it legal and oper. The members of tlie liar with wliom talked were at a loss to understand iw the impression had been convey1 to Justice l'ope that they desired a' st pone men t of the regular term, as le only communication any of them id with him was a personal letter of quiry from Mr. J. K. McDonald, Mr. I - - * * \ I/UIIUIU Will I11IL lliive >1 copy OI Ills < Iter, which lie said, however, lie >11 Id he glad to have published, lie id inquired of Justice Pope as to the signmcnt of Judge Townsend to xington, and had stated lliat if idge Townsend w.i* not to come to innsboro for the regular term, that > one elsie be sent, hut a special term held the third Monday in October. F. II. MoMaster. Killed IlitiiMclf. At St. Louis Wednesday grieving er the death of his wife, the news which came hy a lelcgiaiu wiucu ached liim three days after her dei.-.c. Herman Stock well Hatcher, id 41?. shot and killed himself in a om at the Planters hotel about noon jcsday. Mr. Hatcher was a clerk in e oilice of Walter It. Stevens, sectary of the Louisiana Purchase Kxisition company. A lew years ago lie ii reading clerk >d the house of repscntatives in Washington, 1>. C., s wife's former home. Mrs. Hatchat the time of her death was corresnding secretary general of the nig liters of llie American Uevolu>n. f y.